Wedding anniversary gifts: a name for every year, and a poster to say it
A wedding anniversary has what other dates do not: a name for every year. Paper the first, wood the fifth, tin the tenth, silver at twenty-five, gold at fifty. It is what you give each other, or what children give their parents for a silver wedding — and a poster has room to say all of it. The anniversary print writes the name of the year in large letters, with every year already behind them underneath; its version in numbers counts the months, days and hours spent together. Three others keep the day itself: its sky above the church or the register office, the same sky set beside the one from the night you met, or its light, from sunrise to sunset. The first dance becomes a record whose grooves are the words of the song, the wedding photo a watercolour or a single line, and the word HEART fills up with your photos. From €19.90 to €69.90 depending on size, printed to order in Aveyron.
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Personalised Heart photo poster — your photos in the letters
The word HEART, every letter filled with a photo of your story: the first evening, the wedding, the children. With “You have my HEART” around it, it is a wedding-anniversary gift that needs no explanation.
From €8.90
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Personalised wedding anniversary print — golden, silver and ruby wedding
The name of the anniversary being celebrated, set large — silver, golden — and beneath it every year already behind them, one word each. This is what children give their parents: it states the length of it, which no other gift can do.
From €8.90
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Wedding anniversary print in numbers — months, days, hours and milestones
Twenty years, and what that comes to: 240 months, 7,305 days, 175,320 hours, counted from the wedding day. Beneath it, four milestones of your life together — the children, the dog, the home, the coffees — each with its little drawing. The print you read with a smile before it gets to you.
From €8.90
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Personalised double star map poster — two dates, two skies
Two discs side by side: the sky of the evening they met and the sky of the evening they said ‘I do’, in two different towns if need be. Children give it for a silver wedding; couples give it to each other for their tenth.
From €8.90
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Personalised star map poster
The sky above the place you married, the evening you said ‘I do’: the stars calculated for that date and that spot, with a title and a dedication. The gift you frame for a tenth or a fiftieth anniversary.
From €8.90
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Personalised vinyl record poster — your words in the grooves
The words of your song, your vows or a letter, written in the grooves of a record with the title, the artists and the release date: the sleeve of your wedding album. It is the first-dance gift, and then the gift of every anniversary.
From €8.90
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Watercolour couple portrait poster, personalised — your photo, painted
For a wedding anniversary: the photo from the big day, or from any other day, painted in watercolour, the names underneath and the date as a line of text. You see it painted in about thirty seconds, before you pay.
From €8.90
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One line portrait poster, personalised — your photo in a single line
The wedding photo, or one from a later anniversary, redrawn in a single line: the couple holding hands, their lines joining. Their names and the date underneath, in handwriting.
From €8.90
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Personalised recipe for love poster — your couple’s recipe
For an anniversary: the couple’s cooking time counted in days since the wedding, ingredients from a whole life and a storage note, “for life, close together”. What children can give their parents to tell them what they have seen of their love.
From €8.90
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Personalised “The Light of Our Day” poster — sunrise and sunset on your date
To put the day you said “I do” into light: when the sun rose and set on your wedding, where you married, with the length of the day, the Sun’s highest point and the evening golden hour. All it takes is the date, the place and one or two names: neither the time of the ceremony nor the weather.
From €8.90
Which to choose
| If… | Then |
|---|---|
| You want the light of that day | The “Light of Our Day” poster: sunrise and sunset |
| You are giving to each other | The star map of the evening you said yes, or the recipe for love |
| The children are giving | The anniversary print, which names it: 25 years, 50 years |
| It is the wooden anniversary | Any poster on this page, in its wooden frame |
| You want it to show | The anniversary in numbers: the years in big figures, your names on top |
| You have photos of their whole story | The word HEART, one photo per letter |
| You want the sky of that night | The star map, or the double star map with the night you met |
| You want the song of your first dance | The vinyl record print: the words of your song or your vows, in the grooves |
| You have their wedding photo, or any photo of the two of them | The watercolour couple portrait poster |
| You want to count the days since the “I do” | The recipe for love poster: the cooking time, in real days |
| You have the photo of the couple and want a single line rather than a scene | The one line portrait poster |
The anniversaries, and what to give for each
| The anniversary | Its name | What to give |
|---|---|---|
| One year | paper | The sky of the evening you said yes, at A4 |
| Five years | wood | Any poster on this page, in its wooden frame |
| Ten years | tin | The wedding sky, alone or beside the night you met, framed |
| Twenty-five years | silver | The anniversary print, given by the children |
| Fifty years | gold | The star map poster of the wedding evening |
| Twenty years | china | The anniversary in numbers: twenty years in months, days and hours |
The names shift from one country to another: in Ireland, Germany and Spain the first year is paper, in France it is cotton. Wood at five, silver at twenty-five and gold at fifty are the same everywhere. Allow ten days ahead for Ireland, a week within France.
Frequently asked questions
What is the wooden wedding anniversary, and what do you give?
Five years of marriage. Tradition calls for something made of wood, like a marriage that has put down roots: here, that is the frame — every poster on this page can be ordered framed in natural wood, at A4 or 30 × 40 — and the anniversary print writes “wooden anniversary” in large letters, with the four years already behind them underneath. The name varies by country — Hölzerne Hochzeit in Germany, bodas de madera in Spain — but the idea of wood is the same.
What wedding anniversary gift do children give their parents?
The anniversary print: the name of the year in large letters, silver or golden wedding, both first names, and every year already passed, one material per anniversary. It is the gift several children order together, for a round anniversary. Or the star map of the wedding evening, framed. Either way, it is the children who bring what is needed: the date, the time, the town.
What do you give your husband for a wedding anniversary?
The day, and nothing more: the star map of the evening you said yes, calculated for the hour and the register office, with your two first names and the date underneath — to his colleagues it is an astronomy chart, to him it is a date. Or the recipe for love, which counts the days since the wedding and whose ingredients are the things you never say. To mark the day you met rather than the wedding, the dating anniversary page offers the city map and the moon of that evening.
What do you give for a 10th, 20th or 25th wedding anniversary?
A round anniversary is celebrated in front of other people: that is where a large size beats an A4. The star map of the wedding evening, framed, holds a living-room wall; the double star map sets it beside the sky of the night you met. For a silver wedding, the anniversary print is ordered by several children together and names the year in large letters. The anniversary in numbers works for any year: it writes the number, and the days spent together.
Paper or cotton for the first anniversary?
Both are used, depending on the country: in Ireland, Germany and Spain the first year is paper, in France it is cotton. The lists diverge from the second year and only meet again at a few anniversaries — wood at five, crystal at fifteen, china at twenty, silver at twenty-five, gold at fifty. If you are giving to a couple from another country, it is their list that counts.
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Printed in AveyronComposed and printed in our family workshop in Aveyron, checked before it ships.
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Printed to order250 g matte paper, pigment inks: printed in our Aveyron workshop, whatever the size.
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Shipped within 48 hTo your door or to a pickup point, by La Poste or Colissimo.
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Ready to giveStandard frame sizes, easy to find.